The wait goes on for Kidderminster Harriers

Battling Harriers – with Tim Flowers taking charge of his first home match as head coach – salvaged a precious point with a dramatic stoppage-time penalty by Reece Styche.

James Hurst scored twice for the Gulls with Kidderminster's other goal coming from Aman Verma.

The struggling Aggborough outfit have now lost five and drawn five of their opening 10 matches.

Harriers began promisingly with an excellent run by Tahvon Campbell, who beat off a couple of challenges before firing in a shot which was well saved low down by goalkeeper Fabian Spiess.

The visitors, however, went ahead in the 16th minute when Hurst whipped a free-kick over Harriers' defensive wall and past goalkeeper Alex Palmer.

Torquay went down to 10 men four minutes into the second half when former Aggborough campaigner Simon Heslop was shown a straight red card for tripping Styche, who was

racing away towards goal in a promising breakaway raid.

Spiess did well to keep out a Lathaniel Rowe-Turner header before Harriers broke through when a cross from Jake Green led to Verma nodding the ball over the line

The Gulls regained the lead on 68 minutes when a deflected shot fell kindly for Hurst to slot the ball past Palmer.

Harriers got back on level terms with Styche's stoppage-time penalty after a foul by Hurst on James Spencer.

Kidderminster: Palmer; Hodgkiss, Langmead, Rowe-Turner, Green; Dinsley (Wright, 65), Clarke; Styche, Verma, Campbell (Spencer, 78); Singh. Subs not used: Snedker, Jones, Sweeney.

Torquay: Spiess; McDonald, Geohaghon, Smith; Hurst, Heslop, Briscoe, Carmichael, Butler; Fisher (Lavelle-Moore, 90), Quigley (Fenwick, 53). Subs not used: Lavercombe, Murombedzi, Odofin,

Referee: Richard Martin (Somerset).

Attendance: 1,493 (196 away fans).